| T-minus to T-day |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|12:37 pm] |
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My aunt and second cousin can't make it tomorrow, and I'm not sure whether that's a relief or something sad. This means that I won't have to be embarrassed by my grandma from the other side of the family being crazy and generally making everyone feel uncomfortable in front of people who I don't really consider as close as family. And not being family means, in my book, that you are a person who needs to be treated very well and made absolutely comfortable while you're in my home.
But not having those two also means that there will be less mouths to feed, which is bad if you've ever eaten one of my meals. Maybe I can pawn off some of the leftovers on Devin? Or maybe Jake, though Costa Mesa is pretty far to go deliver food.
I'm glad cramps started this morning, because they'll be out of the way by this evening and I can then bake and cook to my heart's content. As long as my mom (who is at my place cooking as we speak) lets me nap. I will fight her on this one, don't even think I won't. Naps are serious business! |
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| mmmm relaxation |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|09:35 pm] |
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Fabulous weekend of not doing much of anything!!! *sings merrily*
I really needed this. Not that I've been doing a lot lately (cause I really haven't), but to not have any deadlines over my head was so relieving. True I got a short fic out to an author and am working on another short one for her, but really it's not draining. So I've lain around, read awesome fics, played Crisis Core, gone to Hollwyood with Rita to see Devin perform, had a home-cooked meal with Photina, gone to the farmers' market for T-day supplies, slept, and got to see my dad for a little bit.
Most of this was accomplished in pajamas, by the way, as it should be with any good weekend. :D |
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| Update on the pap situation |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|03:12 pm] |
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Got a hold of my doctor the next day and updated her on my sexual history as well as reminded her about the PCOS diagnosis. She still thinks I'm in the low-risk category, but she wants me to come in for another pap in 4-6 months. I'll be there in 4, to be sure.
I heard from a coworker that this type of cancer is very slow growing, which seems to be why the doc can wait for a few months before checking me out again.
Other than that, not much new to report. Rita and I had a strange experience last night at the dive bar that Devin was playing at. Some random friend of his was trying reverse psychology to get us to go out with him: saying he hates us, we smell bad, weird things like that. This is what Twilight has done to our society!! Guys now think girls will fall into their arms if they act like mean bastards or stalkers.
Ok, that's probably not true (yet), but it's damn close enough. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2009|01:07 am] |
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Not sure when the gynecologist called me back and left a voicemail, but I didn't see I had one until a few minutes ago.
It turns out I have precancerous cells along my cervix. They are in the mild category, and because I've never had vaginal intercourse my doc isn't too worried, but she does want me back for more testing sooner than normal.
I'm actually a bit more worried because I had the horrible epiphany the other day that I've had unprotected oral sex before. I always asked my partners (3) if they were clean, but they could have lied or been unaware. And I'm so mad at myself for completely not realizing how stupid that was. My only reasoning for how I could have been that careless was that I had just gotten out of the relationship with Peter, where we were virgins and sex was clean and safe for four years. Then I was trying out casual sexual experiences but still had the monogamous-sex mindset where sex was safe. And even if they were all clean, guys don't normally get tested for HPV, right? And that's the one connected to uterine and cervical cancer.
Hell, I'm really tired and want to sleep, but I don't think my mind is gonna calm down for a bit. I'll go finish up this K/S story and hope that their angst will be my catharsis and their happy ending will give me hope for sunny tomorrows. :) |
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| La La Laaaaaa |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|12:14 pm] |
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Bored at work but being productive. Actually finished (FINISHED!!) scoring the seventy billion AIHQ's from the 12 IBASC cohorts. Also edited and sent out the latest Act for lj user="writerx75">, who is awesome and you all should check her out if you're a fan of hot smex of the male variety.
I'm currently taking a break before starting in on Suz's latest X-Files snippet, though a couple subjects will probably show up at 1 to side-track me. Yes, their intent is totally to thwart my use of lab time for editing. Conniving jerks. ;) (btw, <--- totally scores as a 5 on the perceived Hostility bias section of the AIHQ and a 2 on the Aggression bias.)
Oh, my prof emailed me back the other day about whether to take time off to bone up on the material or to continue on in the program straight through. She says that I should keep going because the best way to learn is to be continuously bombarded by new information and chances to apply my knowledge. So I think that is what I am going to do. I'm not terribly looking forward to the next few classes, though; they seem to be more focused on dealing with graphic and technical elements rather than the grammatical nature of text. Oh well. A completed certificate must look better than just a few classes, right? Right. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|04:36 pm] |
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| mmmmm pretty! |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|03:45 pm] |
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Just started playing Crisis Core on Thursday.
ZOMG pretty boys, pretty scenes, pretty fights, the awesomeness that is a sane Sephiroth!
Seriously, this Sephiroth is so freaking incredible and lovable and nice and not ego-maniacal. The cut scene with him and his two best friends sparring and talking is such a fantastic glimpse into the incredible person Sephiroth was before things went to shit. And his fretting over Genesis after he was infected with mako is so sweet!
Manda's never getting her PSP back. Or well, at least not for another month or two. :D
The friendly (?) fight:
I can't find the scene where Sephiroth frets, but trust me, he does. |
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| Today is the day of Cory-fail |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|07:21 pm] |
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Oh. My. God.
I don't even know how this is possible, but I got a 29% on my last editing assignment. True I had a fever, but still!
This is very, very confusing to me. Every author (except Dr. Green, because he thought I did too much) I've worked with has been more than a little pleased with my editing. I mean, regular fiction authors, erotica authors, scientific article authors, textbook authors: everyone. And it's not like they say "Oh great job!" but then don't come back. These are repeating users!
Just checked the class' grades and it turns out almost everyone did horribly, though I doubt anyone got lower than I did. The average was about 50%, so I'm pretty sure I'm the low outlier. *hangs head in shame*
I'm considering not advancing on to the next class but instead taking that quarter to redo this class on my own, hopefully beef up my knowledge. I've asked my prof what she thinks about that idea, so we'll see if she's got any good advice.
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To all my authors, PLEASE DON'T FIRE ME! I swear I don't do this poorly with your pieces. Thank goodness you all don't have crazy lists of numbers and measurements, or else I might do that poorly. |
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| I'm just that good |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|10:10 am] |
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This morning, right before I was going to leave for work, I went to my bedroom window to open it and let some fresh air in for the animals during the day. As I always do. The window was stuck a little, as it sometimes it, so I used my other arm to push a bit on the other panel so that it could get unstuck and move in the grooves.
Then my elbow went through the window.
I was so startled that all I could do was make this high-pitched little "eep!," which went nicely with the sound of tinkling glass falling to the ground below my window. Lo and behold, my elbow managed to go through not one but two panes of glass.
It then occurred to me that all this jagged glass might have made it through my skin, so I went to look at my arm and there was a small cut, but nothing disastrous. I started poking and prodding it to see if any glass had gotten stuck inside, and then it started to BLEED!! Like, whooooosh!
I'm very proud of myself for not panicking at so much blood. :) These types of wounds can bleed a lot, so I decided to wait to see if the bleeding would stop or not before going to a doctor. In the mean time, I had to drag my giant rat cage into Manda's room and clean up/hide any traces of rodents having been in my room, because the manager would have to come in and he doesn't know about the rats. (Sorry, Manda! Thank goodness we talked about this before.) By the way, it must have been the most ridiculous sight, me dragging a heavy cage across the apartment with one arm, the other arm held up in the air with a dish rag around it to stem the bleeding.
Once the cage was out, I had to vacuum their area and hide their food - once again with one arm and attempting not to bleed on the carpet. Finally, finally I made it to our manager's apartment and let him know what was going on. Not sure if I'll have to pay for the damage (probably?), but he was very nice and friendly during the whole interchange.
The only thing that worries me is that he'll open Manda's room to visit with the kitty and end up seeing the rats. I hope not! |
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| Last day home sick (God willing...) |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|04:44 pm] |
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I could have gone in to work today after my morning doctor's appointment, but I decided that I was already feeling a little too shaky to do anything but go home and sleep. Which I did. For 3 hours. It was good.
Had my first every gynecology appointment today! I was totally quizzing Jess about it last night or the night before because I was nervous about the scraping off of stuff. But honestly, I felt nothing. Even with her fingers! I felt the spec go in a little bit, but she used the little one for virgins on me. Haha. I didn't want her to think I was a wuss, so as we were walking to the exam room I said: "See, I can take big things - anally, down my throat, whatever. But my vagina's just not used to that!"
She laughed, clapped my back, and called me cute. Man, you can't phase OB/GYNs at all! ;) She also seems to be the gyno to the stars, and her personality is very welcoming and instructive, so I'm all ok with her.
Btw, I keep getting tricked by the New Moon posters all over town. Maybe it's from the fever, but they have such a cool look to them with lots of angst and UST that my immediate reaction is to go "ooooh, I wanna see that!" But then I realize it's Twilight and I want to hit my head against the car window for even thinking such a thing. Needless to say, Jess and Jake and I will indeed be watching it once it comes out on DVD, so we can heckle the hell out of it. And maybe get Jess to cry again. |
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| I've had worse flus, but this one is damn annoying |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|12:46 pm] |
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...cause it keeps teasing me! I thought my fever finally, finally, went away yesterday, but apparently it just needed some time to rest before springing back up in the evening. *grumbles* Not sure, but I don't think I'm infectious anymore. I still sneeze as If I lived in a pepper factory, but the coughing has gone down a little and I can almost breathe out my nose. Woohoo!
Still, getting to wear a flu mask like they do in China was really the best part of this whole thing. Ask Manda; my face totally lit up when they offered me one at Urgent Care. Scaring one of my coworkers into actually leaping away from me when I had it on was just fantastic. :D
Some things got done this week, while others were abandoned. Finished Flavio's law note, read my assigned reading, finished the first draft of my homework, did a load of laundry, and started organizing my pictures on my comp. But, didn't go to AZ for the wedding, didn't give the presentation to the people from Hong Kong, and didn't get to the veggies in the fridge before they went bad. The thought of actually going out and driving to the store right now is a little frightening, though. Not gonna lie. |
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|06:36 pm] |
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no wedding :( fever won't go down.
and i screwed pat out of his ride. i tried to make it up to him, but he felt he was taking too much if he agreed. poor pat. :( |
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| and it's back |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|03:59 pm] |
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Got sent home from work today by the big boss. :( My fever was gone this morning when I got up, but after about 30 min at work it shot back up again. Plus I sounded really gross with this nasty cough, and I can't exactly teach about facial affect while wearing a mask that covers half my face.
Dr. Green did not look pleased that I was leaving, but I think he'd rather I don't infect everyone. And he found out I'm going to AZ tomorrow. Boo. Here's hoping that doesn't totally ravage me. *little woot*
Everyone upstairs at the lab spent the little time I was there convincing themselves that I have swine flu. *rolls eyes* My fever wasn't that high, guys, though it did rise quickly. What really sucks is that I can't seem to sleep for more than a couple hours at night, and napping is practically impossible.
Cory? Not able to nap?! Never!
I know, but it's true. (<- the real sign of the Apocalypse, btw) Now to go over Flavio's law not about marijuana. |
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| *hack* |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|10:51 pm] |
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Advil is my friend. Not only does it make the aches go away, but it brings my fever down to a manageable level. Yay for Advil. :)
Tomorrow is the 3-hour presentation for the people from Hong Kong. And it seems like Bill is leaving me in charge of actually running it. Um, not so sure that's a good idea at the moment. I can't talk for too long without coughing, and I can't stop sniffling and snorting. Plus being on my feet for more than 15 minutes seems to make my body want to shut down. Oh Bill, what are you thinking?
It's going to be interesting, one way or another!
Gonna go make more tea now. Night night. |
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| ugggh |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|07:05 pm] |
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I never get flu shots mainly b/c I'd rather my body build up it's own immune system. So every year I end up with the flu. I'm stupidly proud of this.
So now I have the flu, I think. Manda's being awesome and getting me tea and lysine and hyssop and all that. Sadly my temp has only gone up, but I'm hoping it'll die out soon. If it hits 102, I'll go to urgent care, but they'll just give me antibiotics. Don't like those :( Just make me weaker in the future. But I'll take them if I'm seriously ill. Not that much of a hippie.
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Just back from urgent care. Doc says no hard drugs (yay) cause I'm not gravely ill. Just gotta keep my fever lower - 102 is too high. This kinda throws a wrench in my plans for the Hong Kong presentation and the trip to AZ. Hmmmm. |
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| Halloween at the Edison |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|05:01 pm] |
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My procrastination has moved from legitimate cleaning of my dirty room to uploading Halloween photos. Enjoy!
( Photos ahoy )
So I kinda gave this cute bartender my number but in an oh-so-unsexy way, it seems, because he hasn't called me. :( Flirting lessons, anyone? I could use a good instructor. Apparently writing "you have a nice smile, give me a call sometime - little red riding hood in the corset" is not the way to a man's heart. But! I did talk with one of the bouncers (all dressed like clowns) and asked him to put in a good word for me. Which will never happen, I'm sure, but still. At least I tried. :) |
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| Last IBASC group - so strange |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|12:14 pm] |
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Wow, IBASC groups are finally, finally done. It's so strange because this is what I've always associated myself with here at the lab. I was hired on to be the group leader, I became the tester-level "expert" on social cognition, and I've been leading these groups for almost 2.5 years. And now it's done. Wow.
I'm helping Bill put together a presentation on it for the visitors from Hong Kong next week, but no more actual groups. It's so strange. I thought I'd be way happier about this, but it's more that something feels like it's missing now. Oh well, I'll get over that soon enough. :)
Ooh! Both Dr. Green and Bob wanted me to edit things for them: a book chapter for Bob (co-written with Bill) and a grant for Dr. Green. Makes me very happy!
My prof returned our midterms last night; I got an 88%. Not awful, but not quite good enough. Haven't gotten a chance to look at it yet, but she mentioned that I need to watch my spelling more. This is so very true. But I'm making a list of words that I commonly have to look up. Hopefully I'll start chipping away at them.
This weekend is going to be busy! Grant editing Friday night-Saturday morning, Halloween Saturday night, dim-sum Sunday noon, homework Sunday afternoon-evening, and fic editing Sunday night-Monday.
Apartment pictures coming soon! |
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| such geeks |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|12:38 pm] |
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Oh yes. Last night for at least an hour, if not more, Manda and I sorted through our combined book collections so we could do organize them in the shelves by genre.
And it was so much fun!
Once we get the couch in tonight, and after Manda hangs the decorations, I'll take pictures and put them up on here for you all to see. She's doing such a great job of putting things together and making everything sturdy. :D So far all I've done is cook us meals. Tasty meals, true, but still that's pretty much been it.
Yesterday was my first physical in probably over a decade. Did you guys know the do EKGs in physicals? Lol I was so confused. The guy comes in, asking me about fear of needles for blood-draws, and then starts sticking things to my legs and sides. I totally freaked cause I thought he was going to draw from a vein on my leg! Turns out they were just electrodes. :*
Ah, and the doc called me a "medical mystery." It's starting to be really amusing when I can flabbergast my doctors. Gotta find the silver lining somewhere, right? Heehee. |
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